ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ARTISTS
eir,-On the question of "Discouragement," Nugent Welch speaks of an unscrupulous dealer in connection with Francis Hodgkins, but it was that dealer who years ago saw her worth (when the general public laughed at her work), who encouraged her, treated her with admiration and reverence-and kept her alive with a small income. Without him she might have had to give up. So I do not think we can blame him. I think it is also the general public’s failure to understand T. A. McCormack’s inspired work which has caused him a bad time -and not because’ "the exhibitions are swamped out by work of amateurs." The local exhibitions are meant for all the artists, professional and otherwise; they are the only place where the amateurs (i.e, those who don’t have to make their entire living by painting), who perhaps only produce half-a-dozen pictures a year, can show their workthe full-time professionals can have oneman shows. I think T. A. McCormack nearly always has his eight pictures in the Academy, so I can’t see how the amateur is swamping him-unless Mr. ~ Welch wants the former entirely exterminated, and silenced, and all the exhibitions only to show the work of a handful of professionals-surely a pity both for the amateurs and the pictureloving public.
BETTY
RHIND
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 5
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218ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ARTISTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 5
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